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Learn about the Alpine ibex, a wild goat that lives in the mountains of the European Alps. Find out its appearance, distribution, diet, mating habits, population status and threats.
The Alpine ibex is a European species of goat that lives in the Alps and other mountainous regions. It has a brownish-grey coat, long horns, and sharp hooves for climbing steep slopes and cliffs.
Learn about the Alpine Ibex, a large mountain goat with backward-curving horns that lives in the European Alps. Find out its habitat, diet, behavior, threats, and interesting facts.
Learn about the Alpine Ibex, a wild mountain goat with huge back-curving horns that lives in rocky regions above alpine forests of the European Alps. Find out how it adapts to its steep and harsh habitat, what it eats, how it behaves and how it reproduces.
Alpine ibex are mountain animals usually living at elevations up to 3,200 meters. They migrate seasonally between the rock cliffs and the forest, where they feed on grasses, forbs, leaves, shoots and bark.
Ibex are wild goats of the genus Capra that live in the mountains of Europe, Asia, and Africa. The European ibex (C. ibex ibex) is the typical species and lives in the Alps, where it is protected and reintroduced locally.
20 kwi 2020 · We gathered census and distribution data for all the Alpine ibex colonies from management authorities and research groups that monitor them in different countries, and from the literature and publicly available reports.